Steer Town Residents Protest Police Killing
Residents of Steer Town in St. Ann, intensified their protests yesterday, over Tuesday night’s killing of a man, and the injuring of another by an off-duty police officer at a football match.
Eldon Johnson, a 28 year old dancer of Steer Town, was killed by the off-duty cop who was reportedly attempting to quell a disturbance at the game. The game had ended prematurely when a fight broke out between spectators and players from Steer Town, and two men were shot when the policeman intervened and attempted to fire warning shots.
Unconfirmed reports indicate that the police may have fired his weapon before it was fully elevated in the air, and that the men were shot accidentally. The policeman has since been interdicted.
The protests started from Tuesday night, when residents blocked the main road to the community for several hours. Several buildings were also set on fire, and police personnel were reportedly pelted with stones as they tried to clear the roadblocks. A fire truck from the Ocho Rios fire station was also dmaaged. Yesterday morning, the residents again set up several roadblocks, and took their protests to the Drax Hall main road. They were however prevented from blocking this main road, by a strong contingent of police.
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One Response to “Steer Town Residents Protest Police Killing”
said on May 28th, 2010 at 4:26 pm
I would like to stress my concern about the state of Jamaica you have all these big head living in gated community they can sit there and talk all sort of bollocks about what the security force did. 1 The question i would like to ask in respect to Tivoli did the people of Tivoli not known that the security force coming in 2 why did they block the road is that the Wright thing to do? in other countries when things like that going to happen they get dem things and move out these people stayed blocked the road with guns are they the ones that run the country? I guess as cordon to Perkins that is the case, and the human rights some of the MPs who backing Tivoli and some of the reporters. These guys are criminals[ If not] why didn’t they let the security force go in when they dont find anything they would go why block the road is the question and gun blaming them no man get a life Jamaica is going to sink under the water it is going happen it is going to happen. you people are lyers why telling lies on the police the police should seize every thing from and if dem teck it dem fi teck you people tell too much lies. Perking should get the fact before him start clapping is beak get a life once again i call upon the security force to clean up Jamaica so that investment can come in GET A LIFE JAMAICA CHANGE CHANGE and stop lining to the radio stations.
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